Great British Bake Off 2018 LIVE: Manon named star baker as Imelda becomes first contestant to leave the show
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Your support makes all the difference.Britain’s most beloved baking show is finally back! Bake Off returned with a batch of new contestants hoping to win over Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith’s taste buds.
The second series to air on Channel 4 kicked off with biscuit week and saw the 12 newcomers tasked with creating a set of traditional biscuits inspired by something personal to them. A gentle enough start – unlike the technical challenge, which featured some devilishly tricky marshmallow-making as the new dozen were asked to make wagon wheels.
Following a difficult showstopper that saw the bakers make selfie biscuits, France's own Manon was voted star baker, while Imelda was voted out (narrowly losing to Terry).
The Independent live-blogged along all the action from the Berkshire-based tent below. Catch up on everything that happened below – please give the live-blog a moment to load.
The Independent recently ran through everything we learnt from a preview screening of the first episode, also including some tantalising snippets of news about the upcoming series from Prue and Paul. (Spoiler: Sandi Toksvig and Noel Fielding are back and better than ever.)
You can also learn more about each of the new contestants by flicking through the below gallery.
Bake Off airs Tuesday on Channel 4 at 8pm.
Terry's not doing so great, again! And Manon's storming forward again. She's annoyingly confident and good. Already going odd her. Feelings I do not have for our presenters, Noel and Sandi, who are on fine form this evening.
Oh Terry. The producers are really making us feel bad for the moustached man. I feel like they're being misleading. Because Imelda's seaside selfie is not going well, at all. And the tense music's beginning! Oof, my heart rate.
Kim-Joy's really going for an impressionist selfie. Enjoying her painting. And Imelda looks terrifying in her selfie. Ruby, meanwhile, doesn't look like anything at all...
The innuendo has finally arrived! "What are you holding... I thought it was something else!" It certainly does, Kim-Joy.
Judgement time. "Looks like a massive prawn," Paul says of Dan's baby. That's a nice way of putting it, Mr Hollywood, who does not degrade himself to innuendo.
Luke's Vegas bake. Looks like you're safely through. And Antony's pulled it back after that disastrous technical. Rahul's done a stunning job, giving a great answer for not having stubble. You could feel Paul almost going for the handshake... but alas, not today.
Imelda has had another shocker. And Ruby's gone from front runner to back of the pack thanks to an unfinished London marathon. Worst of all, her biscuits are dry!
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